It has been my personal experience that Fedora is one of the least tested Linux distros in the market. Sadly CopperSpice chose to support Fedora first. This is a distro that __never__ tests with NVIDIA drivers that are actually in their repo, prior to pushing out updates. There is a bug that I reported here. My fork of CopperSpice has a hack-a-round this bug in the RPM build script. At some point in the very … CopperSpice and Fedora 40Read more
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Linux Cheats
Here is a list of Linux cheats I just want to keep handy. They will be added to as time goes on. When creating OpenSource software, you have to develop and test on many different distros. No, you can’t “just do Ubuntu.” Given the medical devices I help create and the Yocto building I do, I’m constantly frustrated by differing package managers and such. List Installed Packages Fedora Ubuntu 90% of the time I’m looking … Linux CheatsRead more
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A Fedora 33 Virus?
Several weeks ago Google started popping up their “we’ve noticed suspicious activity” screen and making me respond to a Captcha any time I used them to search something. I try to use Google as little as possible because nobody should be allowed to collect that much information about anyone. Sometimes, when all my other search engines fail I have to go there. This finally became too annoying. The Google screen also said it through one … A Fedora 33 Virus?Read more